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When I originally tried Twitter ~6 years ago, I found reading these soups of compressed writing, forced bad grammar, tags and @'s so weird, cryptic and confusin
by Jare 10y ago
When I originally tried Twitter ~6 years ago, I found reading these soups of compressed writing, forced bad grammar, tags and @'s so weird, cryptic and confusing that I gave up immediately. It took me a while to rejoin and slowly get to 'get' it. I don't really imagine any of these new rules will be any more confusing to new users than the wild west of Twitter behaviours that was and still will be the norm.
I really wish Twitter would work on better tools and policies to prevent stalking, harassing and toxic behaviour. I understand it's a hard problem (no, "just remove nazi, sexist and racist pigs!" does not cut it at all) but I'd like to see them try.
- returnbuyer 10y agoI'd like to see you grow some skin.
- dang 10y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop.
- kharndt 10y agoI had the exact same experience. Could NOT for the life of me figure it out for the reasons you cite. Came back after the election, mostly because I kept seeing it as the single source of breaking news (NOT Facebook, my traditional social media platform). And I can confidently say I had it figured out! Until now.